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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 08:24 PM
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"Our readers don't send young people to war. Our readers are the ones who get sent to war"
Jim Wolcott of Knight Ridder (now McClatchey News) on the reason he felt his organization (almost singularly) needed to question everything regarding the run up to the Iraq War.

From the PBS Special airing now.
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Carolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 08:53 PM
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that line caught me, too. This program is wonderful. Every one in the military needs to see this and launch a mutiny. Then we should send the neocons and their press enablers who literally sold this fiasco over there!

This program finally reveals publicly all the lies we at DU knew. Dan Rather just said "we weren't smart enough." No they were all just lazy! And I'm through with Oprah, too. Hope you just saw her shut down an audience member who challenged the group think.

And geez here are Hillary and Kerry talking about the threat Saddam poses ... yuck. Now, I know I will not vote for ANY bastard who voted for this fucking war.

But then there's Robert Byrd,Teddy Kennedy and Phil Donohue with Scott Ritter telling it like it is, speaking truth to the executive and the press puppies.
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